Play It Safe, Don't Get Cocky [Interstellar]

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Story blurb:

Gu Tiantian, who had been keeping her head down and surviving, transmigrates to the interstellar era and becomes an honored miner.

Gu Tiantian: Well, how should I put this? Even if labor is glorious, this mining job is nothing like I imagined! Good grief!

This is a damn illegal mine!!! They're making twelve-year-old children go underground. Is there any concern for human rights? That's a violation of labor laws!

Dead Star: Sorry, dear, this is an unregulated zone~

After finally hitching a ride with the owner of a wandering ship to escape Dead Star, she is stranded on a garbage planet by a stellar dust storm, where she has to face mutated creatures, exotic beasts, and a stampede of stellar beasts.

Gu Tiantian: Sob, maybe I should go back to being a miner. I just want to find a star chart leading home on the Imperial Star. Why is it so hard?

&&

At the Empire-wide Joint Competition, the Imperial Military Academy's ship commander, who gives orders but doesn't fight, stands in a safe position, surrounded on all sides. Calmly, he directs the frontline mech soldiers to launch an effective assault.

Netizens praise his effective coordination and precise commands, which strike at the enemy's vital points.

Across from him, Gu Tiantian, the commander from Imperial University, is fired up. She leaps into a mech and charges straight into battle, directing the troops as she fights her way through the exotic beasts twice over. The beasts scatter.

Netizen: Did a mech soldier mutate into a commander?

Netizen: The commander is personally leading the frontline?

Excited netizens: Hurry, capture their commander! The Imperial Military Academy will win this round if you do!

Gu Tiantian cuts a formidable figure as she lures the enemy in. Then the Imperial Military Academy's commander gets captured by a logistics soldier from Imperial University...

Netizen: Shameless! Absolutely shameless!

Netizen: How can something so shameless get me so fired up?

The next day, Blue Media Daily criticizes Imperial University for teaching its students nothing but dirty tricks to win competitions. Imperial University responds with its textbook, Practical Combat Exercises.

Lure the enemy in, deceive the heavens to cross the sea, wait at ease for an exhausted enemy, make a feint to the east and attack in the west, secretly cross the river, capture the enemy leader...

Blue Media Daily and the netizens fall silent. So this was all planned from the start?

Gu Tiantian: You're too kind.

Up next: An Ancient Master of the Mystical Arts in the Modern World

Li Zi, an ancient master of the mystical arts, was beheaded by the emperor for speaking the truth to his face. When she wakes up reborn in the modern world, she decides to give up her old ways and stop promoting superstition. She'll believe in science instead.

But the neighbor next door keeps having terrible luck, people keep jumping from the newly built skyscraper owned by the richest man in the country, the male lead and supporting actress of a new drama are arrested before it even airs, and even National Geographic discovers a mysterious dragon vein.

What? You say that's mysticism?

Li Zi: No, no, no. We have to believe in science!

Later, she explains to the actress that the existence of little ghosts is a matter of philosophical idealism, tells the tycoon that magnetic fields are responsible for the strange occurrences in his new building, and even lectures National Geographic scholars on the impact of mathematical principles on geography using the Book of Changes and its eight trigrams.

Everyone: Sure! Whatever makes you happy, Master!

Theme: Create a better life with your own hands